NectarinePlaying - Output on stdout the current track song and artist on Nectarine

np.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
""" Output on stdout the current track song and artist on Nectarine.

It's mainly useful if you work with terminals around and don't want to keep the
Nectarine tab under your eyes all the time (even if it's raina's design). Due to
its nature it can be used with conky, but as it requests the nectarine page at
each execution, it would be better if you use it with the ${execi} command and a
big interval (10 or 20 seconds). Respect their servers, and long live Nectarine!
"""

import sys
import urllib.request
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ElementTree

QUEUE_URL = "https://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/xml/queue/"


def get_now_playing():
    # Get the XML of the queue list
    try:
        queue_resp = urllib.request.urlopen(QUEUE_URL)
    except urllib.request.URLError:
        print("Failed to open", QUEUE_URL)
        sys.exit(1)

    # Parse it to get the currently playing song
    xml_tree = ElementTree.parse(queue_resp)
    xml_root = xml_tree.getroot()
    now_playing_node = xml_root.find("now").find("entry")

    # Get everything in there to print it at the end
    now_playing = ""

    # Get and format artists list
    artists = []
    for artist in now_playing_node.getiterator("artist"):
        artists.append(artist.text)
    for artist in artists[:-1]:
        now_playing += artist + " & "
    now_playing += artists[-1]

    now_playing += " - "

    # Get song
    now_playing += now_playing_node.find("song").text
    
    # Get requester
    now_playing += " (req. by " + now_playing_node.find("requester").text + ")"

    return now_playing


def main():
    print(get_now_playing())
    

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()